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One Man's Quest To Rid Wikipedia of Exactly One Grammatical Mistake

Posted by timothy on from the literally-exploding-with-rage dept.

An anonymous reader writes with this Fascinating profile of one particular Wikipedia editor Giraffedata (a 51-year-old software engineer named Bryan Henderson), who has spent the last seven years correcting only the incorrect use of "comprised of" on Wikipedia. Using a code to crawl for uses of "comprised of" throughout all of Wiki's articles, he'll then go in and manually correct them (for example, using "consists of" or "composed of") and has made over 47,000 edits to date.

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  1. Similarity by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This twitter account is similar: Correcting users on Twitter who type "sneak peak" with "sneak peek", we have "Stealth Mountain". https://twitter.com/stealthmountain

    Not sure either of these qualify as 'news', but what the hell, it's a slow news day anyways.

  2. Re:Patent Grammar Too by oodaloop · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Wow, that's exactly the opposite of this comment above. And every dictionary I can find says they're synonyms.

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